intolerance
intolerance 英 [ɪn'tɒlərəns] 美 [ɪn'tɒlərəns]
n. （尤指对别人的意见）不宽容；偏狭
名词复数:intolerances
- Intolerance — or an unwillingness to accept the beliefs or behavior of someone different from you — is not a quality you want to have. Intolerance is what leads to hate crimes and discrimination.
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- n. （尤指对别人的意见）不宽容；偏狭
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1. Someday we shall overcome racial intolerance.
总有一天我们会克服种族偏见.
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2. All my life I have fought against prejudice and intolerance.
我的整个一生都是为了反对偏见和偏狭.
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3. Calamities always come of a moment's intolerance.
“小不忍则大祸至. ”
- intolerance (n.) 1765, "unwillingness to endure a differing opinion or belief," from Latin intolerantia "impatience; unendurableness, insufferableness; insolence," from intolerantem "impatient, intolerant" (see intolerant). There is an isolated use from c. 1500, with an apparent sense of "unwillingness." Especially of religious matters through mid-19c. Now-obsolete intolerancy was used in same sense from 1620s; intoleration from 1610s. Meaning "incapacity to bear or endure" is by 1844.
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